Big men are the formal chiefs of New Guinea societies who control the production of their followers without engaging in similar productive activities
a. True
b. False
ANSWER:
False
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Homo ergaster is considered by those paleoanthropologists who originally split this new species off of what was previously called Homo erectus and those that agree with this split to be:
A. the earliest species in the genus Homo B. a species that predated Homo erectus in Africa and other areas but in some ways displays characteristics more similar to Homo sapiens than to Homo erectus C. a species that evolved from Homo erectus in Africa and other areas but in some ways displays characteristics more similar to the Australopithecines than to Homo sapiens D. an early species of the genus Homo that had cognitive abilities greater than modern humans
A major difference between Brazilian and American racial classifications is the fact that
A. American categories are purer than Brazilian ones. B. Brazilian racial categories are based on genotype. C. Brazilians do not recognize racial differences. D. social race is determined in the United States at birth and does not change. E. None of these answers is correct.
In ranked societies, the high-ranking or elite do not generally have a great deal of wealth
a. True b. False
Tools found at Natufian sites suggest they harvested _________intensively
a. wild cows b. wild fruit c. wild grain d. domesticated grain